Archive for the ‘Yield, Milo’

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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    Well, we’ve finally gotten some respite from the hellishly hot days of summer. A hint of fall rides in the cool morning air. And, we’ve even gotten a couple of showers to knock the edges off the cracks in the ground. The fall prairie flowers are beginning their rush. The water is cooling down and awakening the slumbering fish. And dove hunting season is open. My apple...
    by Milo Yield at September 4th, 2010 at 10:09 am
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    If you don’t pronounce your words precisely, sometimes the misunderstanding can be pretty funny. To wit: I went into the local feed store recently to buy some poultry feed and dog food. Just as I wuz walking out my cell phone rang and it wuz my good friend, ol’ Rollin Birdz. When he found out where I was, he asked me to go back inside and ask the proprietor to order...
    by Milo Yield at September 1st, 2010 at 11:09 am
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    Laugh Tracks
    Some practical jokes are so good — or bad, perhaps — that the perpetrator just has to let multiple decades go by before he feels comfortable talking about them. For example, it’s pretty safe to tell about a practical joke after all the folks involved are deceased, ‘cept for one! That’s why my good friend Shep from Missouri sent me a letter a couple of...
    by Milo Yield at August 24th, 2010 at 08:08 am
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    The cattle bizness is, thankfully for us columnists, a veritable artesian well of true, humorous stories. The latest one I heard about happened to a cattleman in the eastern Flint Hills who runs feeder cattle during the summer. Well, this summer he had a breechy heifer who had a preference for grazing in the neighbor’s pasture with the neighbor’s cows and calves over...
    by Milo Yield at August 16th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    I said last week that I’d finish talking about our recent little vacation to Albuquerque, N.M., to see long-time friends and their wives. Our second “mooching” stop wuz with old college buddy Potter E. Klector. Potter is an good old farm guy who grew up on an Idaho farm near Shoshone. He made good in life and the Klectors now enjoys retirement in a new home in Placidas,...
    by Milo Yield at August 7th, 2010 at 08:08 am
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    Well, ol’ Nevah and I took a vacation to Albuquerque, N.M., to see two sets of friends from my college days at Bea Wilder U. We had a great time with both Elpee Peavine and Potter E. Klector and their wives. So, this column will be mostly about our trip. On our way out, we had a noon meal with ol’ Dusty Trayle, another ol’ college buddy of mine in Pratt, KS. Then...
    by Milo Yield at August 1st, 2010 at 05:08 pm
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    Peacock is a cattle buyer and he’s been involved in the cattle bizness in Chase County for all his long life. That means his beef industry remembrances date back to the times when cattle were driven to railroad pens one day and loaded on railcars headed to market the next. Hence, the following story he told me recently. One of the cattlemen in the county wuz a shady...
    by Milo Yield at July 17th, 2010 at 04:07 pm
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    My grandson Chancy from Pigeon Forge, Tenn., visited ol’ Nevah and me last week at Damphewmore Acres. He’s more than 6-feet tall and a strapping lad, but has pretty much enjoyed an urbanized lifestyle. That all changed during his visit. We butchered chickens, planted milo, mowed grass, hauled dirt with the tractor, snapped green beans, hauled brush, moved quail, set...
    by Milo Yield at July 10th, 2010 at 04:07 pm
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    All my stories about home poultry flocks keep prompting readers to recall — and send to me — similar stories about chickens in their lives. Here’s one from “The Electric Chicken” who farms near Cedar Rapids, Neb. “Electric” has a free-range poultry flock that was ruled by a domineering rooster who filled the air with his cocky crowing all day long. That...
    by Milo Yield at June 25th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
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    Laugh Tracks in the Dust
    This wuz told to me as a true story — and it happened several decades ago. Mr. and Mrs. Nutson Boltz were newlyweds and, as a wedding gift, one of their elderly farm lady neighbors thoughtfully gave them the nicest present she could think of — a baby piglet. Well, that piglet grew and grew– both in size and as Mrs. Boltz’s favorite pet. That pig became...
    by Milo Yield at June 20th, 2010 at 04:06 pm